MSNBC playing Born in the USA with heroic images of Bush...

[quinnox]

Just a second ago, I couldn't believe this nonsense! What is this, the re-elect official Bush channel!

[exotrip]

1. All 5 people

who watch MSNBC are outraged!

[Dr Fate]

25. LOL!

!!!

[buckeye1]

39. Ah yes.

Welcome to DU. There are many cable junkies here that actually believe these pay channels have great influence. All 3 "news channels" only have about 3 million in primetime on a realy good night. In contrast,the broadcast networks average about 18 million combined.

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Bush has heroic images?

Where? When?

[madmax]

6. Heroic photo-ops

:puke:

[quinnox]

12. they showed that silly clip with Bush on the aircraft carrier saluting...

and also Bush on the ranch being a phony cowboy!

All the while playing Born in the USA as a background along with other images like this.

[Jack_Dawson]

21. wtF?

Maybe it was tongue-in-cheek humor and you guys didn't "get it". No way was that for real.

[BootinUp]

24. one can only hope

otherwise things are a lot worse than even I thought!

[Kool Kitty]

36. You left out my personal

*ahem* favorite-Captain Codpiece on the ruins of the WTC with his trusty bullhorn. All in all, the whole segment was a real dinner-ruiner. :puke:

[bushisanidiot]

42. Did They show the one of AWOL getting his silver star? oops! that 's Kerry

pres. dipshit didn't get any medals cuz he didn't do one damn "heroic" thing. He ran like a screaming baby..

[Guaranteed]

3. DUMBASSES!! NT

[Guaranteed]

19. "Born in the USA" lyrics:

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
--------------------

Yeah! Go AWOL!

[AntiCoup2K4]

30. Well, at least one line of the song DOES fit Junior

....Till you spend half your life just covering up....

The Idiot Son Of an Asshole is always covering up something.

[mzmolly]

4. OMFG!!!

:puke:

[madmax]

5. It's a re-run of 2000

Tweety will suck until his throat closes up.

That's it...no more Bailey's for me tonight. :evilgrin:

[shoopnyc123]

7. That was horrible...

I was shocked. I thought I was watching a campaign commercial, and it turns out it was the "outro" to the commercial.

[AlinPA]

37. I saw it and thought it was a Bush* ad. This is what we will see

from now until the election. Rove does not have to spend any money except to pay off the many producers on TV and radio. (free of charge on MSRNC, Faux "News" and Clear Channel radio stations)

[janx]

8. This is so funny because RIGHT when you posted that,

my husband came into my office to tell me how ridiculous it was!

[Name removed]

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[Guaranteed]

10. I wonder if they realize that the song is actually a slight against

people like AWOL?

[seabeyond]

13. write an email

and ask if this is their statement that they endorse bush for president

[exotrip]

14. New song

It's time for Bruce to pen a new song. How about "Born in Mexico, came to the USA to take jobs from Americans"? Thank you Bush for more red meat for the nominee's campaign! Out of work racists everywhere will apreciate it.

[madmax]

15. They don't have the attention span

they only hear 'Born in the USA.'

[cybildisobedience]

11. saw that too and thought

"What's this crap?"
What's with this pro-bush propaganda that reminds you of something you'd see on state-run Soviet tv.
And it's all him playing dress-up in one form or another, strutting around and pretending to chop trees and putting on his white cowboy hat (which, I'm sorry, always reminds me of the cops escorting Lee Harvey Oswald out of the Dallas Police Station).
It was hideous.

[union_maid]

16. I missed it!

Were there any pictures of him fearlessly leading cheers on the sidelines of a football game? Those just take my breath away.

[Sticky]

17. Bruce Springsteen

....ain't gonna like that.

Lets' hope he makes his protest a public one! hehe

:bounce:

[MidwestTransplant]

18. Bruce would be pissed

He hates Bush

[slor]

20. The whole first 20 minutes of Hardball...

have been disgusting pro-* central. Deficits bad in California thanks to Gray Davis, but no comment regardinging on the national front, same with joblessness. It was incredible!

[cybildisobedience]

22. True -

It seemed like HOURS of David Dreirer just going on and ON about how wonderful Arnold and Bush are. He was saying the most ridiculous things, and Tweety just sat there, like a jerk, either agreeing with him or not bothering to point out the truth.
I am waiting for Kerrey to talk about this 9-11 commission. Watch him switch into "hardball" mode now, and interrupt him 18,000 times.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

34. I prefer Rush Limbaugh to Chris Matthews

At least Rush doesn't hide who he supports. Matthews is only concerned with being on the right side of the power structure. He summarily dismissed Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark. He cares nothing about the democratic process. Every now and then he'll throw a bone to the left but it's all facade. He seduces progressives into thinking that he hasn't gone completely to the dark side, which is more dangerous than Limbaugh, Hannity, and Scarborough put together. But he's even worse, as he has no loyalty other than to himself.

[Guaranteed]

23. Never thought I'd say this...

But this makes me want to vote for Kerry.

[lancdem]

26. LOL

Seeing Bush can make people do a lot of things they never thought they'd do. :)

[coloradodem2005]

27. Bruce is going to be pissed.

[AntiCoup2K4]

28. Paging the Boss!

If he got pissed when Reagan tried to co-opt the lyrics in 1984, he should be furious over this. I know I am :grr:

[treefrogjohn]

29. Maybe they should play that video to Fortunate Son

That would seem to be a more honest match for AWOL

[Guaranteed]

31. Buffalo Springfield and U2 for Kerry, 7:43 PM EST nt

[AntiCoup2K4]

33. Buffalo Springfield?

Are they back together?

[Guaranteed]

35. Nah they were just playing "For What it's Worth"

and "Beautiful Day" for Kerry's little intro deal...guess it was supposed to be the fair counterpart to Bush's "Born in the USA"

[BL_Zebub]

43. As a Devil for Dean, and a U2 fan

I want to :puke: everytime I hear Kerry use a U2 song. I thought he wasn't pretending to be Irish anymore?

[shance]

32. Nice to see the rhetoric return to normal with Dean out of sight

and with Clark out of sight too.

Here we go folks - Republican propaganda festival for all to feast upon!***

[elperromagico]

38. Didn't Springsteen make it clear he was a Democrat

when Reagan tried this shit in the '80s?

[Riptide]

48. I thought it was Dole who tried to use that song...

I could be wrong. I went to a Bruce concert in Philly this summer, and he made some anti-war comments. My repuke brother-in-law and his wife just sat there stone faced, upset that their hero said something negative about Dubya. I jumped to my feet and applauded loudly.

[oasis]

40. Where the hell is an outraged FCC chairman Micheal Powell?

[bushisanidiot]

41. I've Got Some "heroic" images of AWOL right here..

heh.. what an EMBARRASSING "president".

[xxqqqzme]

45. Is that picture w/ the

up-side-down book real? I've seen it B4 but I thought it was photo-shopped. Is it real?

[KamaAina]

44. Bruce is gonna be seriously P.O.'d

maybe P.O.'d enought to buy the freaking channel just so he can fire everybody! Goodness knows he can afford it -- and it's even in Jersey! (Secaucus, to be exact.)

[adadem]

51. I thought

Bruce was a solid R.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

46. Now, that is ironic.

Obviously, whoever is doing this hasn't listened to the words of the song.

[mrgorth]

47. What was the context?

Was the music playing at an event? Was it an ad? Why would they do something so fucking blatant?

[Renew Deal]

49. The owner died.

It's full reich wing assault now.

[Jen72]

50. Bruce Springsteen must be horrified.

That is what happens when they try to use music to make someone
look cool and don't look into the lyrics. Unless it was meant to be
Ironic.